Comments on: Religion With Only One Calorie! http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Occult Investigator » Prophecy? You Better Believe It! http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Occult Investigator » Prophecy? You Better Believe It! Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:11:41 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-283 [...] that most of us have very little experience with today, especially since it’s being sucked out of religion thanks to Fundamentalists and other jack-boot [...] [...] that most of us have very little experience with today, especially since it’s being sucked out of religion thanks to Fundamentalists and other jack-boot [...]

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]]> By: Occult Investigator » The Rejection of The Mysteries http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Occult Investigator » The Rejection of The Mysteries Sat, 16 Apr 2005 16:37:06 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-144 [...] The Rejection of The Mysteries In my post “Religion With Only One Calorie!” I talked about what happens w [...] [...]

The Rejection of The Mysteries

In my post “Religion With Only One Calorie!” I talked about what happens w [...]

]]> By: John http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-140 John Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:54:00 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-140 you know what they say: when your mind turns into one great big fucking pretzel, EAT IT! you know what they say:

when your mind turns into one great big fucking pretzel, EAT IT!

]]> By: Occult Investigator http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Occult Investigator Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:36:45 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-139 yeah i know. i think my mind has officially turned into one great big fucking pretzel... just when i think i've got something down solidly, i see how it can all contort around and present me with a totally new level of understanding. fucking amazing. yeah i know. i think my mind has officially turned into one great big fucking pretzel… just when i think i’ve got something down solidly, i see how it can all contort around and present me with a totally new level of understanding. fucking amazing.

]]> By: John http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-138 John Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:02:06 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-138 it’s interesting that in a way religion helps to prevent this from happening. it keeps the sacred sacred, and theres a clear(er) separation from worldly events, which we are increasingly lacking now --------------------------------------------- and thus........... LITERALISM! I think you've come full-circle here. it’s interesting that in a way religion helps to prevent this from happening. it keeps the sacred sacred, and theres a clear(er) separation from worldly events, which we are increasingly lacking now
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and thus………..

LITERALISM!

I think you’ve come full-circle here.

]]> By: Occult Investigator http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Occult Investigator Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:37:15 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-130 yeah i was thinking more about this aspect youre talking about. i wanted to think more about it before posting, but basically when you strip out the mystery-symbols from religious systems, you're forcing people to find them elsewhere, willy-nilly, wherever they can from what's going on around them. this means that archetypal forces are going to become fixed onto mundane things like terrorism, patriotism etc. it's interesting that in a way religion helps to prevent this from happening. it keeps the sacred sacred, and theres a clear(er) separation from worldly events, which we are increasingly lacking now yeah i was thinking more about this aspect youre talking about. i wanted to think more about it before posting, but basically when you strip out the mystery-symbols from religious systems, you’re forcing people to find them elsewhere, willy-nilly, wherever they can from what’s going on around them. this means that archetypal forces are going to become fixed onto mundane things like terrorism, patriotism etc.

it’s interesting that in a way religion helps to prevent this from happening. it keeps the sacred sacred, and theres a clear(er) separation from worldly events, which we are increasingly lacking now

]]> By: Arizona http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-with-only-one-calorie/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Arizona Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:19:52 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/14/religion-without-the-carbs/#comment-129 <i>The worst part is that it’s a self-perpetuating cycle.</i> Would that that was really the worst part! What is more likely to happen is a true cycle of rejection of the mystery by one generation and the wholehearted but unquestioning swallowing of the mystery by the next, and so on and on. You go from an arid cultural landscape to a chaotic jungle and back again. It's all a bit dizzying or, in the case of the pagan renaissance in Nazi Germany, a bit scary. Nothing like the return of the repressed to instill terror in one's heart. Nice analogy between Pepsi and religious studies. I guess the dietary cycles are chiefly those revolving around carbohydrates, on again, off again. The worst part is that it’s a self-perpetuating cycle.

Would that that was really the worst part! What is more likely to happen is a true cycle of rejection of the mystery by one generation and the wholehearted but unquestioning swallowing of the mystery by the next, and so on and on. You go from an arid cultural landscape to a chaotic jungle and back again. It’s all a bit dizzying or, in the case of the pagan renaissance in Nazi Germany, a bit scary. Nothing like the return of the repressed to instill terror in one’s heart.

Nice analogy between Pepsi and religious studies. I guess the dietary cycles are chiefly those revolving around carbohydrates, on again, off again.

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